The ancestor of the Tasmanian Markhams is Robert Markham (born 1740s), who lived in the village of Shotley, Suffolk, England. The name ‘Markham’ was common in the following areas of Suffolk from the 17th to the 19th century: Hasketon, Levington, Nacton, Bardwell, Bramford, Brantham, Sudbourne, Halesworth, Marlesford. The Shotley Markhams were Anglicans attending St. Mary's. There is no baptism or marriage record for Robert Markham at St. Mary’s. Records of the Markhams at Shotley begin with the baptism of two of Robert’s children, Ann Markham and Mary Markham. No name is given for the mother. Ann, the eldest daughter, was baptised at St. Mary’s, 30 August 1772, aged 6. This makes her date of birth around 1766. Another daughter, Mary, was baptised the same day, 30 August 1772. An Ann Markham was buried at Shotley, 22 January 1796. This may be the wife of Robert Markham and the mother of Ann and Mary Markham.

Charles Markham was born 29 June 1826 and bapt. 30 July 1826. He married Jane Rivers (born at Shotley 27 January 1833, baptised 15 Sept. 1833) at Shotley 7 May 1855. Charles and Jane Markham had six children born at Shotley: Anne Mary "Annie" Markham (born 23 May 1857; married Frank R. Murphy 22 Sept. 1896 in Colorado; died 4 Dec. 1905 in Colorado); Ellen Jane Markham (born 14 January 1859; married Henry Harrison Bills; died in Colorado 3 November 1932); Edith "Kate" Markham (born 13 Sept. 1860; married James Clarke in 1895 and died in London 15 April 1921). Charles John Markham (called "Jack") (born 8 November 1862; married three times: first to Anna Finley, second to Anna Belle Judd (1872-1928) and third to Alice Hazel Pittman; died 1 December 1910 in Colorado); Henry George Markham - called Harry (born 17 July 1866, married Cora "Emma" Morrison 24 April 1890 in Colorado and died 17 Feb. 1957 in Colorado) and Frederick William Markham (born 16 June 1868; died 12 August 1956, in St. Louis City, Missouri). Jack and Harry Markham emigrated to the US in about 1882, settling in Colorado. The father, Charles Markham, died in Colorado, 17 April 1919, aged 92. The mother Jane Markham died in Colorado, 22 July 1912, aged 79.

Philip was bapt. 29 Aug 1831 (buried at Shotley, 8 September 1831).

Mary, born July 1832, bapt. 15 Sept 1833.

Ann Palmer, née Markham (1766- ?)

On 11 June 1786, Ann Markham married Samuel Palmer, at St. Mary’s, aged 20. The baptisms of three children have survived: Thomas Palmer, 7 July 1786, Henry Palmer, 10 February 1788 and Samuel Palmer Jr., 21 February 1790 (died 1882)

Samuel Palmer Jr. married Elizabeth Cudge (born c.1792 Shotley), 23 Nov. 1813 and had a family of eleven children born at Shotley. In the 1830s he was described as a husbandman. Samuel Palmer Jr., a labourer, was aged 94 at the 1881 census and lived with his daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Ann and Joseph Dunnett. He died Oct-Dec 1882, aged 95. In ‘Forty-five years at Shotley’, the Rev. John F.A. Hervey writes: ‘Samuel Palmer, who was born in 1788, told me that he served in the militia during the great war, and that when Boney escaped from Elba [26 Feb. 1815] he was urged to enlist into the regular army and join a regiment that was being despatched to Belgium. But he refused. He said he did not want to be killed. But he added “I should not have been killed; my time was not come then and it is not come now.” To which I replied, “You might have been wounded.” And he admitted that he might have been.’
It seems likely that the Samuel Palmer buried at Shotley 4 January 1809 is the husband of Ann Palmer, née Markham.

Children of Samuel Palmer (1790-1882) and Elizabeth Palmer, née Cudge (b. 1792)

Samuel Palmer bapt. 18 Dec. 1814 (m. Sarah Bennett, 30 April 1839). Samuel Palmer died Oct-Dec 1889, aged 75. His wife died Jul-Sep the same year. By trade, Samuel was a shoemaker and cordwainer. According to the 1881 census, Samuel Palmer, aged 67, lived with his wife in a cottage at Shotley. He is described as a carrier and gardener.

Children included:

Samuel Palmer, born Jan-Mar 1840
Benjamin Palmer, born Jul-Sept 1842
William Palmer, born Apr-Jun 1843
George Palmer, born Jan-Mar 1844
Sarah Palmer bapt. at Shotley, 13 April 1847 - buried 16 June 1847
Mary Palmer, born Jul-Sept 1849
Henry Palmer, born Apr-Jun 1852 - died 26 Jun 1852
Alice Palmer, bapt. 22 May 1853.


Thomas Palmer (bapt. 14 January 1816.) Buried 6 July 1816.
John Palmer (born 15 May 1817). Buried 26 July 1818.
Marianne Palmer (bapt. 26 Sept. 1819). m. James Pyett at Shotley, 19 Jan 1846. James was a porter from the parish of Holy Trinity in Ipswich, the son of Robert Pyett, a labourer. Children: Cecil (born c.1847) and Amanda (born 1848). Marianne Palmer died early 1855. James Pyett remarried in 1857. He married Jemima and they had Cecilia Sarah in 1859. Jemima Pyett died in 1865.
Sarah Ann Palmer (bapt. 28 April 1822). m. Joseph Dunnett, a bricklayer, at Shotley, 19 Jan. 1846. Joseph was bapt. 13 April 1820 in Shotley, the son of another Joseph Dunnett, a shoemaker, and his wife, Lydia. (Joseph Dunnett had two sisters: Mary Anne Dunnett, bapt. at Shotley 4 August 1816 - married Edward Pascal at Shotley, 31 July 1838 and Sarah Dunnett, bapt. at Shotley, 19 July 1818.) Joseph's mother, Lydia Dunnett, was buried at Shotley 21 September 1822. His father then married Mary Gildersleeve in Shotley 11 May 1823.

Joseph and Sarah Dunnett lived in Ipswich Road, Chelmondiston. Children:

Fontenia (born July-Sept 1847; married Oct-Dec.1875). She married John Roe or Frank Webb.
Ce(ci)lia (bapt.17 Jun 1849)
Annie (bapt. 28 Dec 1851; died 1852)
Charles Frederick (born July-Sept 1855; died 1918). Married Alice Horne in 1881.
Ann (bapt. 16 May 1858; died aged 18, Jan-Mar 1877)
Edgar (born July-Sept 1860). Married Annie Maria Punchard or Mary Ann Rackham in the Blything district, Suffolk, Apr-Jun 1897.
Sarah Ann (bapt. 1 May 1863).

According to the 1881 census, Joseph (aged 65) and Sarah Ann Dunnett (aged 59) were at the Foresters Arms Public Inn at Chelmondiston with three children: Charles (a bricklayer aged 29), Edgar (a bricklayer aged 24) and Sarah Ann aged 18. Joseph Dunnett died 26 April 1887. He is described as a bricklayer in his last will and testament proved at Ipswich 11 May 1888. He appointed his wife Sarah Ann Dunnett as sole executrix and had a personal estate valued at £40 12/. According to the 1891 census, Sarah A. Dunnett, a widow aged 69, was a retired laundress, living at ‘Grape Cottage’ in Chelmondiston with her son Edgar, a bricklayer aged 30, and her daughter Sarah Ann, a tailoress aged 28.

According to the 1901 census, Charles and Alice Dunnett lived at Pin Mill Rd., Chelmondiston, with their three children: Arthur Charles (born Oct-Dec 1888) aged 12, Beatrice Alice (born Oct-Dec 1892) aged 8 and Nellie May (born Apr-Jun 1900) aged 10 months. Charles F. Dunnett died Apr-Jun 1918.

Anne Palmer (bapt. 12 June 1825)
Elizabeth Palmer (bapt. 30 March 1828). Buried 19 May 1833 at Shotley
Eliza Palmer (bapt. 18 Sept. 1831)
Charles Palmer (bapt. 15 September 1833)
Susanna Palmer (bapt. 8 January 1837)
George Palmer (bapt. 12 May 1839).


Mary Chittick, née Markham (1772-1850s)

The Tasmanian Markhams are the descendants of the second daughter, Mary Markham, born most likely in 1772. A private baptism was held at St Mary’s, Shotley, for Mary’s first illegitimate child when she was aged about 25. George Markham was baptised 13 September 1797. More illegitimate children were baptised in the first decade of the nineteenth century: David Markham, 23 May 1802 and Philip Markham, 9 June 1805. David died aged eight and was buried 13 June 1810; Philip died aged two and was buried 20 October 1807. Mary Markham’s fourth illegitimate child is the ancestor of the Tasmanian Markhams. He was born 27 December 1808, baptised 2 January 1809 and named after his recently deceased brother. Like his brothers, Philip Markham was given the surname of his mother. On 24 January 1811, Mary Markham was married by banns to Samuel Chiddock, a widower and labourer of Shotley. Both were aged about 39. On 24 March 1815, their only child Rachel Chittick was baptised. Mary was then aged about 43. On 17 January 1837, Samuel Chiddock died aged 64.


Rachel King, née Chittick (1815-1854)

Three years before her father’s death, Rachel Chittick married Lucas "Charles" King, 30 December 1833, aged 18. Charles King was the eldest of nine children. His parents were William King, a shoemaker, and Martha Brame. Charles was born 8 November 1814 and baptised in the Baptist Church 8 January 1815 at Chelmondiston, near Shotley. He was the same age as Rachel. His occupation changed throughout his life. His marriage certificate describes him as a shoemaker, the 1841 census has him as a mariner. He is listed in the 1851 census as a grocer and a cement and stone merchant. He took Portland stone to London by barge and also ran a pub at Pin Mill near Chelmondiston, the 'Butt and Oyster.'

"Butt & Oyster" Chelmondiston

The circumstances surrounding the death of Rachel King appeared on the front page of the Ipswich Express: Essex and Suffolk Mercury, on Tuesday 24 January, 1854: ‘Inquisitions before J.E. Sparrowe, Esq. Coroner. On Friday last, at the Butt and Oyster public-house, Chelmondiston, on view of the body of Rachel, the wife of Mr. Lucas Chas. King, mariner, of that parish, aged 39. The circumstances of the case were very painful. The deceased had lately been in a very dejected state of mind. Wednesday night she passed in a very restless state; on Thursday morning, about nine o’clock, she requested her nurse to call her little boy, a child about twelve years of age. She whispered to him, and he went down stairs, and returned and gave his mother something into her hand, which the nurse could not see. Soon afterwards they heard a ‘ruttling’ in her throat. Being alarmed, they turned down the bed-clothes, and found the poor woman had inflicted an extensive wound in her throat with a razor. She died in about two minutes. It came out in evidence that the deceased had desired her child to fetch a razor that she might cut her corns and that in completing the dreadful act, she completely eluded the attention of those in the house. After a short deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of ‘Temporary insanity.’


Another newspaper, The Ipswich Journal, of Saturday 21 January 1854, gave an almost identical report of Rachel’s death, except that the following paragraph was added on page two: ‘The deceased gave birth to a son on the 3rd inst., and from that time until the 19th had been slowly recovering, but was in a very dejected state of mind.’ A fortnight after the birth of Harry, Rachel King committed suicide 19 January 1854. She was buried in the Baptist cemetery. The child who fetched the razor was William King.


Children of Charles and Rachel King

Sometime after the death of her husband, Samuel Chiddock (1837), Mary Chiddock went to live with her daughter and son-in-law, Rachel and Charles King. According to the 1841 census Mary Chittock and the King family were living in Pin Mill. The family of Charles and Rachel King were all born at Pin Mill, Chelmondiston: Charles, born 10 March 1837, became an apprentice grocer with his father; William King, born at the same place 16 May 1841, became a newspaper reporter; Walter King, a grocer and draper, was born 3 July 1844; George Isaac King, was born 30 January 1852 and Harry King, born 3 January 1854. Mary Chiddock died after 1851 and before 1861. Her death certificate has not yet been traced.

Charles King (1837-before1913) married Jane Tovell of Chelmondiston, 25 October 1855. They were married in the Samford district of Suffolk. Jane, born around 1837, was the daughter of the carpenter Daniel and Maria Tovell. Charles and Jane King lived in Chelmondiston and later in Ipswich where Charles made sugar-coated soap pills he sold as ‘health pills’ for constipated customers. The 1861 census describes him as a baker and grocer whereas the 1871 census has him as a painter and glazier. The 1891 census gives herbalist as the profession of Charles King living at 19 Bramford Road, Ipswich, with his wife Emily, aged 44 (born c.1847) and one child Kate aged 19.In the 1901 census, Charles King, aged 64, lived in the civil parish of St. Matthew in Ipswich and his profession is described as a herbalist.

Children of Charles and Jane King:

Herbert King (born Oct-Dec 1856)
Charles King (born April-June 1859)
Cement Walter King (born April-June 1861
Hugh King (born April-June 1868). Died young?
Kate King (born April-June 1871).

According to the 1881 census, Clement King, a surveyor, was a lodger staying at Mattens Villa at Ubbeston in Suffolk and Herbert King was a pork butcher, living at 45 Norwich Rd. in Ipswich. According to the 1891 census, Clement W. King, aged 29, was living with his wife Mary E[lizabeth], aged 30 and their one-month-old daughter E. Kate King in the parish of Bedminster, Bristol, Somerset. Clement was a telegraph contractor. According to the 1901 census, Clement King, aged 39,worked in the sapper telegraph battn.

In 1891, Herbert was living at 16 Wilberforce St. in Ipswich with his wife Elizabeth (née Payne, born c.1855 at Little Bromley in Essex) two sons (Herbert James P. King, born April-June 1880, and Charles H.J. King, born c. 1882) and a step-son, Arthur F. Payne aged 20. Herbert King was a painter in 1891. According to the 1901 census, Herbert King, aged 44, was a house painter living in Ipswich.

William King (1841-1913) became a farm newspaper reporter in Ipswich. He married Sarah Lydia Rush, 12 April 1870, in the Cosford district of Suffolk. She was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, 13 June 1847.

Five children have been identified:

Edith King (born 12 March 1872; died, aged 20, 3 October 1892);
Edward William King (born 23 September 1874, married Mary Ann Phillips, 24 May 1897; died 14 November 1961)
Elsie Lydia King (born 14 February 1882, married 9 September 1918, died 14 January 1965)
Arthur John Rush King (born 25 February 1886; died 19 December 1915, aged 29)

Stanley Richard King (born 29 April 1889; died 28 Jan. 1971).
According to the 1891 census, William and Sarah King were living with their family at 3 Tavern St in Ipswich. William was aged 49, his wife 42 and there were four children: Sarah (aged 20) a typist and clerk, Elsie (aged 9) a scholar, Arthur (aged 5) a scholar and Stanley aged one. Sarah King (William’s wife) died 17 April 1892.

According to the 1901 census, Edward W. King and Mary Ann King (both aged 26) were living at 70 St Helen’s St. in Ipswich with their daughter Anna Mary King aged 2. Edward was a watchmaker. The last will of Edward King of 303 Colchester Road, Ipswich, is dated July 1949. He appointed his two daughters, Anna May Wyton and Nellie Vera King as executrices and trustees, leaving effects worth £450 5/- 2d.

William re-married 11 July 1898 (aged 57). His new wife was Hannah Catchpole Segar, born Tathingstone, Suffolk. They married at Ipswich. According to the 1901 census, William (aged 59) and Hannah King (aged 64) were living at 29 George St. in Ipswich with three of William’s children from his first marriage: Elsie Lydia, a clerk aged 19, Arthur J.R. aged 15 and Stanley R. aged 11.

William King died intestate in Ipswich 4 August 1913 aged 72. He was a widower. Edward William King of 29 St George's Street, Ipswich, a jeweller, was designated as next of kin. The gross value of the estate was £318 16/-. The net value was £24 13/- 6d.

Walter King (1844-1928) was a grocer, draper and postmaster at Chelmondiston.
He married Jane Morgan Oct-Dec 1866 in the Cosford district, Suffolk. Jane was born 1843 in Colchester, Essex.

Five children have been identified:

Morgan King (born Oct-Dec 1869)
Frank King (born April-June 1871)
Mabel King (born July-Sept 1874)
Austin King (born April-June 1876, married Eileen May; died 28 October 1962 at Ispwich and East Suffolk Hospital. He had lived at Aspall House in Chelmondiston. In his will he left effects worth £4879 1/- 5d to his wife).
Ethel May King (born 26 June 1883; married Alfred George James at Camberwell, London, 25 Aug. 1909; died at Horsham in Sussex, 26 Feb. 1962).

According to the 1901 census, Morgan King (aged 31) and Frank King (aged 29) lived in Chelsea, London, and worked as watch and clock makers and jewellers.


According to the 1891 census, Walter and Jane King and family were living at the Post Office in Chelmondiston. Walter was described as a grocer, draper and sub-postmaster aged 47; Jane also aged 47 was an assistant in the post office. There were two children: Morgan King aged 21, a watchmaker, and Ethel M. King aged 7.

According to the 1901 census, Austin King, aged 24, was an assistant draper working in the ecclesiastical parish of St. Martin’s Ludgate in London.

Walter King died 24 October 1928 at Chelmondiston. His last will and testament was proved at Ispwich 3 December 1928. He appointed his son Frank King of Felixstowe in Suffolk, a retired grocer, as executor. He had lived at Aspall House in Chelmondiston. Gross value of his estate: £456 6/- 4d.

George Isaac King (1852-1937) married Eliza ‘Ellen’ Croft 25 December 1874 in the Blything district of Suffolk. He was a cab-proprietor at Ipswich. George King died around. 1937. According to the 1891 census, George I. King aged 39 was living in Ipswich with his wife Ulin E. King (aged 41) and their two daughters: Nellie born at Stutton aged 14 and Georgina C[roft] aged 3 born Oct-Dec 1887 in Ipswich. Georgina King died in Ipswich in 1893 aged 5.

Harry King (1854-1939) a master watchmaker in London, married Elizabeth Laughlin (1858-1942) at Great Blackenham in Suffolk, 14 April 1884. According to the 1881 census, Harry King, an unmarried watchmaker, aged 27, was living at 48 Westgate St. in Ipswich.

There were four children:

Rachel 'Jessie' King (born 31 July 1885, married Duncan Howard King 13 April 1909 at Westerminster Friends Meeting, London, died 21 December 1965 in Norwood, London)
Alice Lilian King (born 15 April 1887 and died 8 July 1944)
Gertrude Mary King (born 17 February 1889, married Francis Arthur Mann 25 July
1919 in London and died the same day as her husband and sister Alice)
Harry King (born 4 March 1891 and died 23 January 1970).

According to the 1891 census, Harry (aged 37) and Elizabeth King (aged 33) were living at 29 Bramford Road in Ipswich with their four children: Jessie, a scholar aged 5, Alice aged 3, Gertrude M. aged 2 and an infant (Harry Jr.).
According to the 1901 census, Harry (aged 48) and Elizabeth King (aged 44) were living at 55 Ranelagh Rd in the ecclesiastical parish of St. Saviour’s in London with their four children: Rachel J. aged 15, Alice L. aged 13, Gertrude M. aged 12 and Harry aged 10.
Harry King died 29 March 1939 at Clapham in London. He is buried at the Streatham Park Cemetery, London.


William King (1841-1913)

William King, the reporter, died of heart failure at Bilney House, St George’s St., Ipswich, 4 August 1913, aged 72. He was buried in Ipswich Cemetery, 7 August 1913. The following obituary appeared on page seven of the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury, 8 August 1913: ‘Passed away in his sleep.’ There could be no more delightful ending to a strenuous life than that which befell my old friend and comrade, William King, when he passed away in sleep in the early hours of Bank Holiday morning. His life’s work was done; he was older than his age, but he literally died in harness, as he always desired to do. Journalists, like artists, are born, not made, and William King was a born journalist. He never allowed his pen to run away; he had discretion beyond the ordinary, and knew how in his reports to leave an indiscreet word out of a speech, or to substitute a softer word sometimes, when a speaker had used one which would hurt. I first met William King in the early eighties, when he was on the staff of the ‘Ipswich Journal’; I last saw him last Friday on his way to the office of the East Anglian Daily Times. He looked weak and worn, but did not give the idea that the end was quite so near. ‘Billy King,’ as his intimates were allowed to call him, will be missed throughout East Anglia. A man of thorough general knowledge, his speciality was agriculture. His spare figure and his genial presence have grown less familiar during the past two years.

William King

An article devoted to William King, entitled ‘A Suffolk Journalist’, appeared on page ten of the same newspaper: ‘The death occurred on Monday morning at his residence, St. George’s Street, Ipswich, of Mr. William King, F.J.I, one of the oldest journalists in the Eastern Counties. He died apparently in his sleep shortly after six o’clock. The late Mr. King was one of a family of twenty-three, twenty-one boys and two girls. His father was Lucas Charles King, a farmer, of Shotley. The only surviving members of the family are five younger brothers - Mr. Walter King, postmaster of Chelmondiston; Mr. George Isaac King, cab proprietor, Ipswich; Mr. Harry King, London; Mr. Edward King, who has been in the employ of Messers. Spurlings and Hempson for forty-five years; and Mr. Brame King, a jeweller, of Mansfield, Notts. Mr. William King was born in May, 1841. He came to Ipswich when he was fifteen years of age, being articled as an apprentice to Mr. Charles Sully, proprietor of the ‘Ipswich and Colchester Times,’ one of the group of newspapers which were in later years amalgamated with the East Anglian Daily Times. In 1867 - the year remembered in Suffolk for the visit of the Royal Agricultural Society, the exhibition being held at Bury St. Edmund’s - Mr. King joined the reporting staff of the ‘Ipswich Journal,’ and his energies were fully employed on that newspaper until nearly the close of the century. A reporter of what would now be termed ‘the old school’ - the school in which verbatim work was deemed of far more importance than condensation - Mr. King, in the earlier part of his journalistic career, was accustomed to take a full note of many speeches delivered by the clergy, politicians, and leading agriculturists of Suffolk.’


Further Marriages & Children of L.C. King (1814-1893)

After the death of his first wife, Rachel, in January 1854, Charles King
married Mary Cooper (born 1 June 1823 at Kirton in Suffolk), 6 June 1854 at St. Giles in London and had three more children: Edward King, born 9 August 1857; Brame ‘Beanie’ King, born 6 November 1862 and Mary King, born 12 August 1867.

According to the 1881 census, Lucas Charles (aged 66) and Mary King (aged 57) were living in a farm cottage at Shotley. The household was as follows:
Charles, a grocer aged 43; William a newspaper reporter aged 39; Edward a clerk to an auctioneer aged 24; Beanie a watchmaker aged 18; Mary aged 13 as well as Agnes Dale a housekeeper aged 28 and Ellen Simpson a general domestic servant aged 14.

Edward King (1857-1914)

Edward married Louisa Wilkins 20 August 1884 at Camberwell in London and died at 332 Norwich Road, Ipswich, 20 May 1914. According to the 1891 census, Edward and Louisa King were living at 53 Berners St in Ipswich with their three children. Edward, aged 34, was an auctioneer’s accountant and Louisa was aged 32.

The three children were:
Lucas Charles King aged 5 (born April-June 1885)
Esther Christmas King aged 4 (born Jan-Mar 1887) (died Apr-Jun 1900, aged 13)
Winifred Louisa King aged 2 (born Oct-Dec 1888).

According to the 1901 census, Edward (aged 44) and Louisa King (aged 41) were living at The Street in Claydon, Suffolk, with seven children:
Lucas C. aged 15,
Winifred L. aged 12,
John Charles King (born c.1891) aged 10
Hilda Mary King (born Apr-Jun 1892) aged 8
Harold Edward King (born Apr-Jun 1893) aged 7
Margaret Doris King (born Oct-Dec 1895) aged 5
Dorothy Kathleen King (born Jan-Mar 1899) aged 2
Present also were Nellie Wilkins, aged 25, Edith M. Taylor, aged 38, a
visitor from the Governess School and two domestic servants: Annie Spink, aged 21, and Elizabeth Packard, aged 14.

Edward King left a will dated 29 October 1886. He was then living at 76 Berners Street in Ipswich. He appointed his wife Louisa King as executrix to whom he left a personal estate the gross value of which was £1445 18/- 11d. An obituary appeared in The Suffolk Chronicle, 22 May 1914, page 12: KING - On May 20th, at The Hollies, Norwich Road, Ipswich, Edward King, aged 57 years. (For 44 years with Messrs. Spurlings).


Brame ‘Beanie’ King (1862-1952)

Brame married Salome Kate Wilkins at Bromley in Kent, August 1886.
Children were:
Jeffery Brame King (born 22 May 1888, married July 1912 and died 14 February 1925)
Mary Cooper King (born Jul-Sep1889 in Ipswich)
Daisy Marjorie King (born 7 October 1892 at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, died aged 3 in 1895). Nellie Ethel King (born Jul-Sept 1895 at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire).

According to the 1891 census, Brame (aged 28) and Salome King (aged 25) were living at a jeweller’s shop where Brame was the manager at Mansfield in Nottinghamshire with their two children: Jeffrey B. (aged 2) and Mary C. (aged 1). Martha A. Hodkin was their thirteen-year-old servant.

According to the 1901 census, Brame (aged 38) the manager of a jewellery shop and Salome King (aged 35) were living at 13 Byron St. Mansfield, Nottinghamshire with their three children: Jeffery aged 12, Mary C. aged 11 and Nellie Ethel. aged 5 (born Jul-Sep 1895 at Mansfield).

Brame King of Claremont 84 Annandale avenue in Bognor Regis (Hampshire) died 25 September 1952, aged nearly 90. His will was proved at Lewes, 30 March 1953. He left effects worth £1316 5/- to his daughter Mary Cooper King, a spinster. Salome King died at Bognor Regis 27 May 1954.

Mary King (1867-1890)

Mary King, born at Shotley, died of consumption 28 Nov 1890 aged 23. An obituary appeared in The Suffolk Chronicle, 29 November 1890, page 5: 'KING - inst. 28th, of Chelmondiston, in her 24th year, Mary, youngest child and only daughter of L.C. King, 32 Clarkson street, Ipswich, formerly of Shotley.'

Charles King’s second wife, Mary, died 4 May 1881. Four months later King married the sister of his daughter-in-law, Ellen Morgan, 22 September 1881 at Hackney in London.

According to the 1891 census, Charles and Ellen King were living at 22
Chenery St in Ipswich. Charles is described as a retired farmer aged 76 and Ellen was aged 51. They were living with Charles’s grandson, Frank King, aged 19, a post office clerk. Frank was the son of Walter and Jane King.

L.C. King died in Ipswich 5 January 1893, aged 78. In his last will, dated 24 October 1885, he appointed as executors his two sons Walter King, grocer and draper of Chelmondiston, and Edward King, an auctioneer's clerk of Ipswich. He left a personal estate with a gross value of £39 10/-.


According to the 1875 Suffolk Post Office Directory, the population of Shotley in 1871 was 628. One farmer listed was Lucas Charles King. In 1841 it had been 464 and in 1801 the population was 284. The population of Chelmondiston in 1801 was 320 and by 1841 it had grown to 564.

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